"Huh?" Ryuji was startled when he saw the strange expression on Lin Sanjiu's face. "Let me ask you.
Why did you say that this is a locked-room pocket dimension? "Lin Sanjiu turned around and stared at the corpse in the distance.
"Didn't you say that?"
"When did I say that?"
Draconic Two uttered an "eh" and blinked its eyes. "You said that this is a secret chamber instance dungeon. A person died here and now his corpse has returned … … additionally, you will need to solve the mystery in order to get out. Isn't this a locked-room murder? "
"No, this is a locked-room escape …" Lin Sanjiu paused halfway through her sentence. She had never thought of it in a different direction.
Perhaps, it was just a coincidence. From the traces found so far, there was nothing to prove that this was a murder scene in a secret room. The lock on the window handle was indeed locked, but there was no evidence that the door was also locked. After all, she had not even rebuilt the door.
Lin Sanjiu recalled the hint given by the pocket dimension with a heavy heart.
The hint was basically nonsense. "Find the correct key", "Open the door and exit"... Normally, the route in a locked-room escape game would be very complicated. Just holding the key to open the door was no different from a normal room.
Just when she thought of this, she suddenly froze and slapped her forehead.
No, it was indeed different from a normal situation!
"What's wrong?" Ryuji looked at her and asked. He seemed to be interested in this pocket dimension, but he still looked like a lost lamb that was about to fall to the roadside.
"Didn't I tell you about the first hint of the pocket dimension? Yes, the one with the key. It's very simple. " Lin Sanjiu frowned and said cautiously, "The hint seems simple, but it's a little strange."
"Why?"
"I'm in the room now. Why do I have to hold the key to open the door? Usually, if you're in the room, you can just push the door open and go out. " Lin Sanjiu was glad that she had a conversation partner who was not her own subconscious so that she could organize her thoughts through the conversation. At the same time, she was also inspired by another way of thinking. "There is only one situation where I need a key, and that is when I am locked in the warehouse."
"You have a point." Long Two's eyelids drooped as he looked at the corpse that was dragging its legs in the distance. The corpse was still inching closer to Lin Sanjiu, slowly emerging from the darkness.
"The window is also locked, and so is the door." Lin Sanjiu showed him the handle of the window, even though he looked listless. "… And the keys are all in the room."
The card in her hand flashed and turned into a bunch of keys.
Long Two slowly opened his mouth. "In other words …"
"Yes, this really is a secret room. It's a secret room in the sense of a murder case, like in a mystery novel. "
"I used to love reading novels." Ryuji scratched his head. "I used to be unpopular in school. I was always alone wherever I went, and I didn't like to read serious books. So, whether it was eating or walking, I would always read detective novels …"
The rest of his words were like a gust of wind that blew past Lin Sanjiu's ears, leaving no trace.
The lock on the window was usually facing the room, but the door was the opposite. It needed to be locked from outside. In other words, if the murderer wanted to leave both keys in the room, he couldn't leave through the window or the door after he committed the crime.
Then, why did the pocket dimension say that it was a "Locked Room Escape Game"?
"Maybe it's because it is indeed a secret room for you," Ryuji said slowly after he heard her question, "You were thrown into the crime scene of a locked room murder case, so you have to find a way to get out of here."
Lin Sanjiu nodded thoughtfully.
This "way" to get out was not an easy one. Judging from the pocket dimension, the corpse, and other traces, she had to find the method that the murderer used to get out of here.
"He's here again," Ryuji reminded her in a low voice just as she was thinking about this. Lin Sanjiu turned her head around and shot a quick glance at Ryuji before she strode to the other side of the warehouse. The corpse was like a haunting spirit that kept following behind her, making her feel extremely uncomfortable.
It was as if a depressed person wouldn't even have the energy to stand up. Ryuji was still sitting in the bushes with a tired expression on his face. Only when the corpse walked past him did he shudder slightly.
"Don't you have any other flashlights?" When Lin Sanjiu walked around the warehouse and returned to Ryuji, he suggested, "Why don't you put a few more light sources in here? Otherwise, this dead man is too scary."
The grand prize had given her a few spare flashlights, but they were all used up in Shambala. She needed to recharge the batteries for the remaining ones. Lin Sanjiu raised the [Ability Polishing Agent] in her hand and answered, "I guess I have to rely on this."
Ryuji raised his head and looked at the silver bottle. He sighed, "Is this … a lamp?"
"No, but I've always used it as a lamp." While Lin Sanjiu chatted with him, she was still thinking about the possibility of a "locked room murder". After thinking for a while, she asked, "You read detective novels a lot. What do you think of this?"
Even when Lin Sanjiu was talking about something interesting, there was no spark in Ryuji's eyes.
"It's not a real locked room," he said in a low voice. "At most, it looks like a locked room … But in the end, there will always be some kind of camouflage. This is the so-called 'trick'. Sometimes, there are tricks like locking the door from the outside, but … it only works in novels. After all, there are too many variables in reality. "
Lin Sanjiu was walking around the warehouse when she heard what he said. "Have you tried it before?"
"When I was in middle school, there was a 'hobby exhibition' … I wanted to demonstrate the hidden room trick, but the fishing line wouldn't listen to me."
In short, Ryuji had always been surrounded by the aura of a "loser" ever since he was young.
Then again, what could the "trick" in this hidden room be?
As Lin Sanjiu pondered, she tried to reconstruct the wall with the window. The window that was recovered from the broken glass was not big. It was hard to imagine an adult squeezing through it, not to mention that the murderer was most likely a man.
If only she could imitate the grand prize or Nuwa again. However, both options had disappeared from her list.
Just as she sighed inwardly, she heard a long call that pierced through the night sky. For a split second, Lin Sanjiu thought that she was hallucinating because she missed her grand prize so much. It was only when she turned her head around in a daze and saw the blinking blue dot on the pager that she realized that she had heard it correctly.
Ji Shanqing was calling her.
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